Madison Cross

follower of Christ || wife || JPC || dog mama ||7/19/48-4/24/23

[Lu for Alaska @luinalaska]

Tara is, unsurprisingly, completely incorrect.

Hemorrhagic emergencies can happen, will happen, do happen, and often start with zero awareness in the new mom.

How many times I’ve gone to a freshly postpartum mom happily breastfeeding her baby and said “hey honey can I check you” and said “oh you can keep feeding I’ll just check your belly and your bleeding” and then I push down on a boggy uterus and a large pool of blood is sitting under her. I’ve done this around the skin-to-skin baby countless times. Most of the time there is a nice firm uterus and I chat with mom for a bit and go on about my day.

BUT.

Sometimes I calmly say hey let’s hand dad the baby I need to really assess you. The next hour is a flurry of medical folks, meds, interventions, and conversations with mom. Then everything is fine. And in five hours I check you again and look you’ve got an IV but you’re back to breastfeeding! Yay!

I trust maternal intuition. I’ve seen maternal intuition save baby’s lives. But this idea that a woman with zero actual experience with postpartum emergencies can simply save her own life by magically knowing what to do is incredibly dangerous rhetoric that should be called out for what it is.

[av @avbebopother]

hey really quickly to the girl dads, if you have young girls ALWAYS come to the women’s restroom, us girls do NOT care, we don’t care that you’re protecting your girls and making sure they’re safe, a WOMAN will never ever argue with you about that, protect your girls, always!!!!!

[Mama T🌻 @herchosenpath]

If I walked into the ladies room and saw a man trying to help his daughters I would politely wait outside until they’re done. This isn’t difficult. The babies just needed to use the bathroom and they should be in the bathroom that was made for them.

[layan @wiingsinmotion7]

Hey did you know that your microwave gives you cancer and your ac gives you cancer and your car gives gou cancer and the airfryer gives you cancer and your phone gives you cancer and your oven gives you cancer and your frying pan hives you cancer and your food gives you cancwr

[Lisa @lisathebeauty1]

I only like when it rains when I’m home

[Ous'B 💚 @BongsMahlangu_]

The world is so soft & warm to pregnant women and so so hard to new moms.. I don’t understand the disconnect

[Madison Cross @madisoncross__]

It honestly disgusts me to my CORE how many moms, women who have gone through the process of bringing a human into this world and the vulnerability of being postpartum, absolutely bash and crap on other mother’s who had to get c-sections. genuinely, what is wrong with y’all???

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

Let your children see you have fun. Sprinkle it in whenever you can; Sing while you're stuck in traffic, dance when you're cleaning the kitchen and laugh at your own mistakes. Fun doesn't have to be reserved for weekends & vacation. Show your children how to enjoy life even in the mundane routines; they'll watch, learn and do the same.

[𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕣 ✨ @LittleShellder]

I got a Tiffany bowl for my wedding and didn't know what else to put in it

[Madison Cross @madisoncross__]

“I don’t want to bash moms that don’t breastfeed, but”…

You’re literally doing it. You’re bashing them. You don’t know a mom’s situation to make a generalized statement like that. How about we lift up mothers that are doing the absolute best they can? Fed baby = happy baby.

[Andrea D. Huberwoman, Ph.D. @thegenesisbl0ck]

I don’t want to bash moms that don’t breastfeed, because some don’t for valid medical reasons, but it’s sad if you’re willingly missing out on such a big part of having a baby. Every night before bed, I nurse her to sleep while she snuggles tight and holds my thumb with her little hand. It’s been the biggest “hack” whenever she’s upset or uncomfortable. Postpartum can feel like a permanent emergency, but when you have to sit down and feed, you’re forced to let go and be in the moment where nothing else matters.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

We really should make "oldest kid in the family day" where we all celebrate the oldest kids and thank them for taking one for the team and letting their parents use them as guinea pigs when it comes to parenting. you're the real MVPs!!

[softly magical°🦢♡ @softlymagicall]

I advocate for children to be dressed like children

[Madison Cross @madisoncross__]

apparently telling a woman on a FB group that I’m in that her husband using porn as a manipulation tactic to have sex with him when she’s freshly postpartum is disgusting, is apparently being “unkind” and needs to be said “in a more loving way”.

please be so forreal right now

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated."

Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.

[Madison Cross @madisoncross__]

@JennMGreenberg It’s sick. I can’t even look at the videos that show what happens during the termination of the baby at that stage of pregnancy. All I can think about is my son and how much he was moving at just 10 weeks in utero, let alone 20-21 weeks pregnant like their baby was.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

Can someone explain the phenomenon of not being able to watch scary movies anymore after having kids??😩

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s hurtful and manipulative, and it’s not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. Taking care of them is your responsibility.

[Cielo 🇺🇸🇵🇷 @CieloBonit]

I think kids with Down syndrome are the closest you get to angels on earth.

[Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft]

The nerve of murdering your child and saying you are now “grieving the loss” of your child…

Parents who miscarry their children or lose them to some kind of sickness or accident can rightly “grieve the loss” of their children.

Parents who murder their children cannot.